The Russian Special Army was a
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
Russian field army that fought on the
Eastern Front.
Field management was established in August 1916.
The Army was named ''Special'' because it was thought that the name ''13th Army'' would bring bad luck.
Composition
At the end of 1917 the army consisted of:
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31st Army Corps
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39th Army Corps
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44th Army Corps
* XLVI Corps
* I Turkestan Army Corps
* IV Cavalry Corps
* VII Cavalry Corps
Deployment
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Western Front (August–September 1916)
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Southwestern Front (September–November 1916)
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Western Front (November 1916 – July 1917)
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Southwestern Front (July 1917 – early 1918)
Commanders
The commanders of the Army were:
* 14.08.1916 – 10.11.1916 - General of Cavalry
Vasily Gurko
Vasily Iosifovich Romeyko-Gurko (russian: Васи́лий Ио́сифович Роме́йко-Гу́рко; 20 May 1864 in Tsarskoye Selo – 11 February 1937) served for a brief period as a Chief-of-Staff of the Imperial Russian Army before b ...
* 10.11.1916 – 17.02.1917 - General of Infantry
Pyotr Baluyev
Pyotr Semyonovich Baluyev (21 June 1857 – 1923 in Moscow) was an army general in the Imperial Russian Army and commander of the Southwestern Front from 24 July 1917 to 31 July 1917.
Biography
Baluyev was an inspector and an instructor in the ...
* 17.02.1917 – 31.03.1917 - General of Cavalry Vasily Gurko
* 02.04.1917 – 09.07.1917 - General of Infantry Pyotr Baluyev
* 12.07.1917 – 29.08.1917 - General of Cavalry
Ivan Erdélyi
Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ...
* 29.08.1917 – 14.09.1917 - Acting Major General Vasily Sarychev
* 14.09.1917 – 20.11.1917 - General of Infantry Stepan Stelnitsky
* 11.1917 - Acting Colonel
Alexander Ilyich Yegorov
* 20.11.1917 – 13.12.1917 - Lieutenant General Theodore Rerberg
* 13.12.1917 – 19.12.1917 - Lieutenant General Alex Kushakevich
* 12.19.1917 – 03.1918 - Colonel
Vladimir Yegoryev
Vladimir Nikolayevich Yegoryev (russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Его́рьев; March 16, 1869 – September 20, 1948) was a military commander and military expert of the Russian Empire, Russian SFSR, and Soviet Uni ...
See also
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List of Russian armies in World War I
List of Russian armies in World War I
This page is a list of Russian army formations existing during World War I.
* 1st Army
* 2nd Army
* 3rd Army
* 4th Army
* 5th Army
* 6th Army
* 7th Army
* 8th Army
* 9th Army
* 10th Army
* 11t ...
References
{{Russian Empire Ground Forces
Armies of the Russian Empire
Military units and formations established in 1916
1916 establishments in the Russian Empire
Military units and formations established in 1918